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Bad lie

NFL Sunday Ticket Will Be Available Online

Very tempting, indeed. Watching football's about the only reason I pay for cable anymore. Not sure the $350 will make up for the costs savings, but it sure would be fun being snooty and bragging out my lack of cable.

You won't be able to watch anything on Sunday Ticket that you can get on a cable channel (i.e., no Sunday or Monday night football or local teams).

Florida State Lineman Remains Motionless for Entire Play

German MNT keeper Enke in apparent suicide

When I sat there seriously considering ending my own life and the best way to do it, I thought of my wife and children, and how sad and traumatized they would be whichever way I did it. And I stepped back from the edge that day and damn glad I did.

Whereas Enke thought about his wife and child and likely thought, in his diseased mental state, that they would be better off without him. After all, him being away for so long, in a career he was "failing" at, with no other way to provide for them, because what else does he know but soccer? If he was out of the picture, the threat of their daughter being taken away would be gone. His wife could find someone better to love her and help raise their daughter, someone not broken. After all, he couldn't even save his first daughter. Yeah, they'll be sad, but they'll move on, and be better for it. Hey, there's a train.

Or, you know, maybe he didn't think a single thought about them. I don't really know. To be fair, I doubt he really thought much about what he'd leave behind for the bystanders. I guess I just don't see the usefulness in getting pissed off at dead people for offing themselves when they were clearly in a very broken mental state.

Is It Time to Retire the Football Helmet?

I am wondering why everybody seems so concerned with protecting NFL players when of all the occupations I can think of, they have some of the best pay, benefits, and a player run union to fight for the rights and goals of their membership.

Redskins Sue Elderly Fan for Breaking Season Ticket Agreement

1.) Team name is a racial slur on a people that our government literally tried to wipe from the face of the Earth, by killing them all.

2.) They sue a 72-year-old woman because she can no longer pay for season tickets, even though she is a lifelong fan of a team with a name that evokes the near-genocide of a people and the taking of their land by force, by killing most of them.

3.) Team genocide wins, financially ruining someone's grandma. Oh, and by the way, the name of this team -- in the year 2009 -- is a literal racial slur on the same level as "nigger", "spic", and "kike". And this is a team based in the capital city of the government that tried to wipe said people from the face of the Earth, by killing them all.

4.) I hope you go 0-17. That's right, I hope you somehow lose an extra game. For the fucking Indians, and someone's grandma.

"I really haven't seen them play...slidepiece...Dave Concepcion."

A Prayer for the Tampa Bay Rays

As a Pirates fan who moved to northern Florida this year, I've really become a Rays fan. Because the Rays are the team that the Pirates should have been years ago -- the team that chucked pretty much everything but the ballpark and rebuilt everything in a way to make it work. I guess the Rays are my vicarious Pirates.

Let's Play the Feud!

The Decline of Commentary

Oh, man, those Formula 1 guys are hilariously bad. Every time there's even the mildest skid, you hear them go "OOOAHAAHAAA!!!" It's like listening to a broadcast by Jerry Lewis. And why do they need three announcers? They all talk over each other (usually with "OOOAUAAAAUAUAAOAA!!!"). It's the most amateurish announcing I think I've heard in professional sports.

Game 6

MLB Demands Toothpaste Be Put Back in Tubes, Andy Griffith Re-runs*

The entire concept of the MLB blackout baffles me. "Since this team doesn't sell out their games, we will stop showing them to the fans who can make it to the stadium. That way, uh, wait..." Major League Baseball is the most anti-fan league in all of sports, worldwide. Also, Slingbox is no more illegal than taping a game and taking it with you to a hotel room 2000 miles away (yeah, MLB probably says that's illegal too, but then they say playing fantasy league is illegal -- because they hold contept for their own fans).

Davis blazes trail with gold

"American football is, in short, a made-up sport."

And, of course, by the last quarter I am totally absorbed. I am drunk and in love. I'm roaring abuse at the fancy-dan Patriots when they dare to mock the Eagles' victory wing-flap. Nope, no knees jerking around here.

"American football is, in short, a made-up sport."

Jeez, did you whiners even read the article? My favorite organic sport is Bounce the Superball Off of the Sidewalk Really Hard and If You Whack Yourself in the Face and Break Your Glasses, You Lose, Because Mom Will Be So Pissed.

Deion Sanders on Moss.

Now That the Media's Got the Matchup "Everybody" Wanted,

so they'll definitely slap one of those Clavin-peeing-on-the-abstract-concept-of-Terrorism stickers

What does the Momma's boy mailman from Cheers have to do with this? Boston? My favorite "feature" of this series is the Diamond Cam. "Here's what the game looks like to a mole about six feet from home plate. Next, we'll show you the view from a piece of nacho under some guy's seat in the upper deck!"

ESPN.com debuts Page 3

USC gets ripped off

One strike against OU is that they lost the conference championship. Should a team be ranked number 1 if they can't win their conference? Is losing the conference championship more or less important than losing to a weak team? Red wine or white wine? My favorite quote is from this article:

"I learned a little about life in general," Poole said. "You can't let a computer make decisions for you. Computers are going to take over. The next thing you know, everybody is going to be out of a job. Computers are going to play football. If you let computers run the world, what are humans going to do?"

Please, let's get to a real playoff system before the BCS become self-aware.

Thanks to Iowa winning a squeaker on Saturday, they get to go to a bowl name after Corporation A, rather than Corporation B. Go Hawks! As for rivalries, OSU-Michigan always seems to be the most important in terms of rankings and bowl games and such, but everyone knows that the most important rivalry is the Case Western Reserve (now just Case) Spartans vs. the Carnegie Mellon Tartans. I see my alma mater got its ass handed to it again this year.

Pro Football Overtime

When you have 60 minutes to score more points than the other team, the unfairness of not getting the ball again in OT (especially if it's because your defense sucks) rings a bit hollow to me. If it were up to me, I'd just get rid of OT in the regular season, but that could lead to more teams playing for the tie instead of the win.

I do like the new color scheme, even though it looks like it was dreamed up by people who say "synergy" a lot. I remember when the Pirates were changing from their pill-box style hats to the current style. The local paper had a survey thing where you could vote for the style you preferred and give a comment. I, of course, voted for the clown hats. Hey, I was 10.

Soccer, a sport of terrorists?

After reading some of the discussions in the Steelers forum, I retract my satire vote. Also I grew up near New Castle and remember a vocal, disturbingly large minority of people are like this guy. I still say New Castle is a good beer, though.

40 subpoenas for "big-time atheletes".

My head seems to have gotten bigger in recent years, but unless someone's spiking my Moutain Dew, I think it's just because I'm fatter. I think Bonds' big head is just his ego manifesting itself physically.

I want to subscribe, just so I can cancel in righteous indignation. It's one thing to name the guy, it's another to name his work place, his family, his neighbors, his neighborhood, etc. I'm surprised they didn't end the article with, "Get him, boys!"

I blame Dusty. And the fan. And Gonzalez. And Prior. And the other pitchers. And olestra. And George Bush, if the mood strikes me. When a team scores eight runs in one inning, there's usually plenty of blame to go around. I don't blame the Billy Goat, though. He's just a (wait for it) scapegoat.

Pedro Martinez beat up Don Zimmer,

All I know is that if I see someone lumbering towards me like a zombie with a brain craving, I'm going to try to get that brain-eating head as far from my head as possible, and that means he's going down to the ground. Um, folks, let's not forget that Boston's "Finest" were on the scene too, in fact, one of them immediately attended to Zimmer after Pedro body-slammed him Was this before or after the pile driver? I largely agree with Pedro's reaction, but that figure-four leglock was just insulting. Anyway, I (a Pirates fan) saw Pedro point to his head and say "I hit you here," but lip reading isn't exactly a science. Well, maybe it is, I guess I don't know.